a. [f. as prec. + -AL.]
1. Of, belonging to, or in accordance with chronology; arranged in the order of time.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, II. xxii. § 11. 558 (R.). In the Chronologicall Table.
1644–52. J. Smith, Sel. Disc., VI. xii. (1821), 288. Gantz hath summed them all up in his chronological history.
1754. Chatham, Lett. Nephew, iii. 16. Settle in the mind a general chronological order and series of principal events.
1755. Young, Centaur, ii. (1757), IV. 150. These moderns … dip into you, as into chronological tables, to know what happened before the flood.
1824. Dibdin, Libr. Comp., II. 347. A chronological series of our classical poets.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 3. Attempts to determine the chronological order of the Platonic writings.
2. Relating to or dealing with chronology.
a. 1691. Boyle, Wks. (1772), VI. 116 (R.). Those so much desired chronological labours of the late worthy bishop of Armagh.
a. 1845. Barham, Ingold. Leg., 7. A mortal horror of chronological references.
1867. Freeman, Norm. Conq., I. App. 586. Pointing out the chronological impossibility of the tale.
1871. Hartwig, Subterr. W., i. 5. Every leading fossil has its fixed chronological character.
